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Awake/1987: 7/22 Watching the World….. Aluminum Alert “A leading group of British scientists is warning against using aluminium saucepans and aluminium-rich foods,” says The Sunday Times of London. ‘Scientists from the Medical Research Council’s neuroendocrinology unit in Newcastle upon Tyne believe aluminium contamination of food and water is a possible cause of Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of senile dementia.’ Although it was previously thought that the amount of aluminum absorbed from cooking pots was negligible, recent research showed a dramatic increase in aluminum release due to a chemical reaction when fluoride was present in cooking water or when cooking acidic foods
Awake 1986: 5/8 Watching the world ….. Baby Formula Alert Babies with poorly functioning kidneys should not be fed infant formula containing aluminum, research shows. While investigating the deaths of two babies who suffered from kidney dysfunction, Miami University doctors discovered that the brains of the babies contained massive amounts of aluminum as a result of the inability of their kidneys to cope with the toxic metal. New Scientist reports that the infant formula powdered milk drunk by the children “contained 50 times the amount of aluminium found in breast milk.” *** dx30-85 Aluminum ***ALUMINUM (See also Cooking; Metals) advertising: g30 2/5 306-310 ; corrosion: g62 8/22 25; discussion: g69 8/8 17-20 government influence: g30 7/23 680-684 health dangers: g82 6/8 30; g62 6/22 8-10; g49 8/8 16; g48 5/22 11; g47 1/8 22-24; g46 1/30 2; g46 7/3 10; g45 8/15 22; g39 2/22 10-11; g38 4/20 10, 26; g38 9/21 10-11; g37 8/25 750-752; g37 9/8 771-780; g36 2/12 304; g36 9/23 803-812; g35 1/2 208; g35 1/30 269; g35 2/27 341-343; g35 4/10 440; g35 5/8 506; g35 12/4 143; g34 8/29 766-767; g34 9/12 771-779; g34 9/26 803-811; g32 10/26 35-38; g32 11/23 126-127; g31 2/18 338-342; g31 5/13 533-534; g31 7/8 658-661; g31 10/28 54; g30 5/14 527-528; g30 7/23 675-680 link with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: g83 2/8 30-31 link with senility: g80 8/8 30 industry: g74 12/22 30; g70 8/22 17-20; Ghana: g65 1/22 22 |
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*** g82 6/8 p. 30 Watching the World *** Aluminum Overload ● Toronto pharmacologist Dr. Armand Lione says that aluminum in the food we eat and in the utensils we cook with may contribute to health disorders. He claims that as little as two or three milligrams of aluminum filtering into the brain can disrupt normal functioning and contribute to a form of senility. Lione said that the average North American takes in about twenty-two milligrams daily, and most is excreted through the kidneys. However, he warns that the efficiency of the kidneys begins to decline after age thirty, so some aluminum begins to stay in the body. What are some common sources of aluminum in foods? Commercial cake mixes, pancake batters, self-rising flours and frozen doughs. These often have sodium aluminum phosphate as a leavening agent. In sulfate salts of aluminum, known as “alums,” aluminum may be present in some pickled foods, such as pickled cucumbers. Aluminum cookware, especially when used to prepare and store acid foods such as tomatoes, can increase aluminum content, the doctor declares. |
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*** g83 2/8 pp. 30-31 Watching the World *** More on Aluminum ● Aluminum was thought to be harmless to humans until scientists recently found it in the brains of senile people and concluded it may be a cause of senility. Now the magazine Science reports that aluminum may be implicated in another degenerative-type disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease). A study of diseased brain tissue from residents of the Pacific island of Guam, who have an unusually high incidence of ALS, revealed significantly more aluminum than did brain tissue from controls. The question of whether aluminum cooking utensils are hazardous is still open, according to the scientists. |
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*** g80 8/8 p. 30 Watching the World *** Aluminum and Senility ♦ Using a very sensitive analytical method, two researchers have confirmed earlier findings of a link between aluminum and senility in the aged. By means of scanning electron microscopy, together with X-ray spectrometry, they detected “a lot of aluminum in neurons containing neurofibrillary tangles” in brains of the aged, says the report in Science News magazine. “Such tangles are one of the major characteristics of senility.” Aluminum, notes the magazine, has “been introduced into our lives through various industrial products—airplanes, buses, trucks, windows, roofing, foil, cooking utensils and others.” |
